Improved fruit-box



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JONATHAN VTNOENT, or NEWFANR, NRW YORK, AssIGNOR To HIMsELF, WALTER SHAW, AND SELDEN DREDMAN, vOF* SAME PLACE.

IMPROVED FRUIT-Box The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

VT'o all whom it 'may conce/rn.-

Be it known that I, JONATHAN VINCENT, of the town of Newfane, in the county of Niagara, and State ing is a full and exact description thereof, reference` being had to the accompanying drawings, and the letters of reference marked thereon, in which- Figure l represents the sides of the box.

Figure 2, the bottom, with its supporting sides.

Figure 3, the bottom inserted in place.

Figure 4, the topp, with its ends turned at right angles.

Figure 5, the completed box..

My invention consists of a rectangular fruit or packing-box, the sides of which may be formed of a single piece of thin wood or other suitable material, iig. l, and bent at e e e e at iight angles, the ends being then secured together by tacks b, or other fastenings, as desired.

Or the sides maybe formed 'of two pieces, each piece being bent at e e, at right angles. The sections a a of each piece being in length equal to the Width of the box, overlap each other, and are secured together by tacks l), or other suitable means, thus forming a box with two opposite sides double.

One piece, iig. 2, forms the bottom of the box, and also supports for the bottom and cover, section c being the bottom, and sections d d, Vthe supports, The piecev is thenbent at e c, and the supports d d are shoved up intothe box, (already described,) till. sectionc forms a bottom, level with the lower edges thereof. The supports (l d extend to the top of the box, or thereabouts, as desired, iig. 3, and are secured by tacking them to the sides of the box, near the bottom, iig. 3, ff, or by other desired fastenings.

One piece, iig. 4, forms the cover. This is bent, ai 'e e, 'at right angles.

Sections h h are the ends of the cover, which are shoved down between the sides of the box, iig. 3, a a, and the supports d (l, until section g`of the cover rests upon the supports. It is there retained by the friction of the parts c a and fl l on section h h, thus forming a perfect-box, iig. 5. l

Sections' c of the bottom, and g of the cover, may bein width equal to either the inside o1I outside diameter of the box.

The pieces may be creased or scored on either `,side at the point of' bending.

I do not claim as inyinvention the sides ofthe box, formed of a single piece, that device having been in use for many years; nor do I claim as my invention,

endsl for support, in connection with an inside-end lining, as that form has been used in Phelpss application, referred to by the oftioe; but

So constructing a fruitpbox that the cover is snpported on'the inside of the box, by having its bent-np ends inserted between the sides of the box, and the sections of the bottom piece also Ibent up at right angles, and extending nearly to the top of the box inside, said cover being retained in its place by the fricthe purposes set forth.

' JONATHAN VINCENT.

Witnesses:

CHRISTOPHER R. OoRwIN, JAMES MAXWELL.

arranging the top and bottom, each with projecting tion of the parts, and the bottom secured to the sidesat or near their lower edges, all'arranged as'and for 

